Women's Health Matters

Addressing the recent upsurge of interest in the issues surrounding it, provides a valuable and practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health.

Helen Roberts is a medical sociologist working at the Public Health Research Unit at the University of Glasgow. She is best known for her work on women's and children's health, and her most recent publications are Women's Health Counts (editor) and Miscarriage (with Ann Oakley and Ann McPherson).

Introduction, Helen Roberts; Chapter 1 Getting at the oyster, Ann Oakley; Chapter 2 Black women's health matters, Jenny Douglas; Chapter 3 Food for thought, Margaret Thorogood, Angela Coulter; Chapter 4 Birth and violence against women, Sheila Kitzinger; Chapter 5 With women, Mary J. Renfrew, Rona McCandlish; Chapter 6 'My health is all right, but I'm just tired all the time', Jennie Popay; Chapter 7 'Isn't she coping well?', Frances Price; Chapter 8 Working in the dark, Marina Barnard; Chapter 9 Research and audit, Edith M. Hillan; Chapter 10 Answering back, Helen Roberts;